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An Oakbrook Terrace company asked state regulators Friday for permission to resell public telephone service in the Chicago area, which historically has been served by monopoly utilities such as Illinois Bell Telephone Co. Metropolitan Fiber Systems Inc., which owns a fiber-optic network in the Loop and provides private phone services to businesses, asked the Illinois Commerce Commission for permission to resell "switched" public phone service....

A 36-year-old Hoffman Estates man has been accused of bilking an IBM subsidiary out of nearly $300,000 in computer parts, police said. Percy Mui, of 4607 Mumford Drive, was arrested late Friday in his home by Wood Dale police, who said they first learned of the man through USCO, a distributor of IBM components at 101 Mark St., Wood Dale. Mui is an employee of Technical Service Solutions, 3140 S. Finley Rd., Downers Grove, and was hired to repair computers, said Detective Cmdr.

By John Byrne and Hal Dardick, Chicago Tribune reporters | April 24, 2012

In a bid to curb the black market for parking tags near Wrigley Field, Ald. Thomas Tunney introduced a plan Tuesday to hike fines for reselling residential permits. City officials long have complained about Wrigleyville residents turning a profit by selling the windshield stickers that allow cars to park on the congested streets around the ballpark to suburbanites and residents from other city neighborhoods. Tunney, 44th, said he hopes people will think twice about flipping residential permits when faced with heftier consequences.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - MelbourneIT, an Australian Internet service provider that sells and manages domain names including Twitter.com and NYTimes, said on Tuesday the credentials of a reseller had been used improperly to change domain settings and hack into sites including the NYTimes.com. Officials at The New York Times identified MelbourneIT as its domain name registrar and the primary victim of hacking by supporters of the Syrian government and warned its employees to stop sending sensitive e-mails from their corporate accounts.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Monday signed legislation forcing municipalities to resell firearms from gun buy-back programs rather than destroy them, closing a loophole in the conservative state's laws. Brewer, a Republican and staunch gun rights advocate, signed the bill preventing local governments from melting down the weapons obtained from these popular civic events. Before the new law, the state had allowed such firearms to be destroyed. A spokesman for Brewer could not immediately be reached for comment late on Monday.

Five employees of the historic Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip were taken into custody Wednesday after authorities learned numerous bodies had been dug up and the grave sites were illegally resold, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said. Detectives discovered a pile of bones -- from more than 100 bodies -- decomposed, above ground and uncovered in an overgrown, fenced-off portion of the cemetery, Dart said. "What we found was beyond startling and revolting," the sheriff said. On Wednesday night, as news of the grim discovery spread, devastated families started trickling onto the cemetery grounds to check on their loved ones' graves.

Hard times for USN Communications Inc., the Chicago-based phone firm that's laying off 650 staffers and restructuring itself, illustrates how difficult it is to make money buying local phone service from Ameritech Corp. and reselling it. When it was signed in 1996, USN's reseller agreement was touted by Chicago-based Ameritech as the wave of the future, and the dominant local phone provider cited its deals with USN as proof that it faces real competition and deserves federal permission to offer its customers long-distance service.

CDW Corp. will strengthen its position as the largest U.S. computer reseller by acquiring the majority of Micro Warehouse Inc. -- the first acquisition in the Vernon Hills company's history. CDW on Monday announced that it will purchase 60 percent of the assets of Norwalk, Conn.-based Micro Warehouse, a direct marketer of technology products, for $22 million. The deal is expected to boost CDW's annual sales by nearly 25 percent. U.S. and Canadian sales at Micro Warehouse are on track to total about $1 billion this year.

In his 20 years in the used computer equipment business, Stephen Rivera has never seen anything like it: entire high-end networking equipment suddenly available at 75 percent discounts, some of it so new it's still under warranty. He's even getting calls from Fortune 1000 companies and government entities, he says, who have shunned so-called "secondary" goods in the past, but who know a good bargain when they see it. What's going on? Why the flood of high quality technology?

By John Chase and Ray Long, Tribune staff reporters | January 16, 2005

Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan's office has launched an investigation into whether the mail-order pharmacy that handles prescriptions for most state employees and tens of thousands of other Illinois consumers routinely and illegally sold drugs to patients that had been returned by other customers. Such resales are prohibited in most states, including Illinois, because the medicine may have been damaged, exposed to extreme heat or tampered with. Madigan's new inquiry of Caremark Rx Inc., one of the nation's largest pharmaceutical mail-order companies, comes as the Tennessee-based firm is trying to hold on to its $200 million-a-year contract to manage prescriptions for 255,000 workers, dependents and retirees covered by most of Illinois' state employee insurance plans.